Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popularity rating dipped noticeably in the last job-performance polls. With his big legislative battles over the budget and tax reform still in front of him, Reagan had doubtless hoped that an interlude of high-visibility statecraft in Europe would provide a boost to his domestic standing. The Bitburg fiasco did precisely the opposite, causing unwelcome distractions and unnecessary embarrassments. The episode could hardly bring the Reaganaut march to a halt, but it will make the going harder...
Despite the $484 million settlement, the troubles at the Electric Boat division were not over. In 1981 the company's own inspectors discovered that workers had neglected to make critical welds in several submarines and covered up the errors with faked welding reports. The fiasco forced Electric Boat to reinspect all the welds and make repairs costing about $100 million. To recoup its loss, General Dynamics decided to turn to, yes, the Pentagon. The company argued that the Navy was liable for paying the repair bill under an obscure but standard clause in the submarine contract that called...
Self's financial transactions make the phrase "filthy lucre" seem quaint. He spends in a slack-jawed trance usually associated with pornography. Wads of currency go for hogsheads of alcohol and composts of fast food. His car, an overpriced Fiasco, is nearly as costly to keep as Selina Street, a sexual acrobat and shakedown artist whose faked orgasms excite Self more than the real thing...
...final performance during the St. Petersburg engagement turns into a fiasco: a clown goes mad, an enraged tigress must be shot. Offstage, Fevvers nearly surrenders her putative virtue to a Russian grand duke. The trip on the Great Siberian Railway brings worse tidings: sabotage, derailment, kidnaping outlaws. Walser loses himself and his memory in the vast tundra, while Fevvers realizes that the vanished reporter has stolen a piece of her heart...
...only other thing of importance that this fiasco means is that Harvard won't make another Briggs Cage appearance until...